Archive for the ‘Analysis services 2005’ Category

Why I don’t think powerpivot will be a success

Just returned from the sharepoint 2009 conference, I’m really excited about all the new BI stuff.
One of the things I’m really excited about is powerpivot. As you might have guessed from the title, I’m going to elaborate on why I don’t think powerpivot will be a success, in the sense I don’t think it will [...]

Start SQL server from the command line

SQL server can be started and stoped from the command line like this:
Start: net start mssqlserver
Stop: net stop mssqlserver
The same goes for Analysis Services.
Start: net start “SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER)”
Stop: net Stop “SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER)”

Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The metadata for the statically linked measure group, with the name of XXX, cannot be verified against the source object

I’ve been working a little with MS Analysis services lately. Yesterday I came across this error message:
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The metadata for the statically linked measure group, with the name of XXX, cannot be verified against the source object.”
The error message is self explaining. I did indeed have more than one cube, [...]